As a student at Berkeley in the late sixties, one faced constant turmoil on social issues. We were all caught up with the Free Speech Movement, subscribing to Ramparts, etc. As a student of Geoff, we also found relief in moving daily to the Rad Lab on the hill. Geoff had a large group of graduate students, sharing a common interest in various aspects of strong interactions, ranging from purely phenomenological to foundational aspects of S-matrix theory. This group included Ling-Lie Chau, Jerry Finkelstein, Jiunn-Ming Wang, Farzam Arbab, Jan Dash, Huan Lee, Richard Brower, Michael Misheloff, Carleton DeTar, Dennis Sivers, Don Tow, and others.Students just finished included David Gross, John Schwarz, Shu-Yuan Chu, John Stack, etc. Other contemporary students include Dick Haymaker, Lay-Nam Chang, and others. Together with other students, e.g., Dick Slansky and Joe Weis, and also a large group of post-docs, a common theme shared by most was the question of consistency and uniqueness of the S-matrix, as exemplified by the bootstrap program[1]}, [2]}. Can all Regge parameters [3]} be fixed within an analytic S-matrix? One could not avoid discussing the Pomeron and Bootstrap nearly on a daily basis.
